Monday, September 13, 2010

Question of the Day #686

After just one night in Jersey, the "aw" in talk, walk and call snuck back into my speech.

And after spending a week with my mother, yesterday, when I entered a bathroom and saw myself in a mirror, I caught myself walking like her. My laugh also sounded similar and my hands gestured like hers.

I didn't realize I'd been picking up on that stuff and I was surprised when I noticed.

9 comments:

I often start picking up accents when I'm around people. Doesn't matter if it's Brit, Southern, NY. It just happens.When I was a kid I moved from NY to Ohio and kids would stand around me in a circle, saying, "Talk. Talk." I guess they found my accent amusing.

I, like you, see more and more of my mother creeping in. It started with the multiple pairs of glasses (and of course I can never find the right ones), and now some of her speech mannerisms seem permanently ingrained in my behavior. And I swore up and down that I'd never turn into my mother!!

Same thing happens to me Suzanne! Every time I return to L.A. from a visit home in Chicago, people tell me that I've got a big Chicago accent. Not quite "da beerz" but words like mom sounds like "maahm", etc....and I get shit for it!